Whenever a thought arises, instead of trying even a little either to follow it up or to fulfil it, it would be better to first enquire, “To whom did this thought arise?”
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe ego’s phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the `I’-thought rises.
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Peace is the inner nature of humankind. If you find it within yourself, you will then find it everywhere.
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Pure Consciousness, which is the Heart, includes all, and nothing is outside or apart from it. That is the ultimate Truth.
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It is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free.
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As you are, so is the world.
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The search “Who am I” ends in the annihilation of the illusory “I” and the Self which remains over will be as clear as a gooseberry in the palm of one’s hand.
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If you approach the ocean with a cup, you can only take away a cupful; if you approach it with a bucket you can take away a bucketful.
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All that exists is but the manifestation of the Supreme Being.
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A realized one sends out waves of spiritual influence in his aura, which draw many people towards him. Yet he may sit in a cave and maintain complete silence.
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Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination.
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All unhappiness is due to the ego. With it comes all your trouble. If you would deny the ego and scorch it by ignoring it you would be free.
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In the Heart’s cavity, the sole Brahman as an ever-persisting ‘I’ shines direct in the form of the Self. Into the Heart enter thyself, with mind in search or in deeper plunge. Or by restraint of life-movement be firmly poised in the Self.
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If you observe awareness steadily, this awareness itself becomes the Guru that will reveal the Truth.
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The Self is here and now, it is the only Reality. There is nothing else.
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When we turn the mind inwards, God manifests as the inner consciousness.
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Grace is always present. You imagine it as something high in the sky, far away, something that has to descend. It is really inside you, in your heart. When the mind rests in its source, grace rushes forth, sprouting as from a spring within you.
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